Train and pay people who have been through cancer to guide newly diagnosed patients through the system, especially where oncologists and nurses are scarce.
Community health workers transformed HIV and maternal care delivery in low-resource settings. Cancer has peer support but rarely a paid, trained, supervised navigator role. The proposal is a certified curriculum (system navigation, plain explanation of treatment, side-effect triage, financial and legal signposting, misinformation response), a salaried role in cancer units and community clinics, and a supervision structure under nursing.
Shares Tata Memorial Centre, Not enough oncologists, nurses, pathologists, physicists, Most of the world has almost no cancer care.
Shares Tata Memorial Centre, Not enough oncologists, nurses, pathologists, physicists, Most of the world has almost no cancer care.
Shares Tata Memorial Centre, Most of the world has almost no cancer care.
Shares Not enough oncologists, nurses, pathologists, physicists, Most of the world has almost no cancer care.
Shares Not enough oncologists, nurses, pathologists, physicists, Most of the world has almost no cancer care.
Shares Not enough oncologists, nurses, pathologists, physicists, Most of the world has almost no cancer care.
Shares Not enough oncologists, nurses, pathologists, physicists, Most of the world has almost no cancer care.
Shares Tata Memorial Centre, Most of the world has almost no cancer care.